LEWIS, Elijah Banks, a Representative from Georgia; born in Coney, Dooly County, Ga.,
March 27, 1854; attended the common schools of Dooly and Macon Counties,
Spalding Seminary, Spalding, Ga., and a business school in Macon, Ga.; moved to
Montezuma, Macon County, Ga., in 1871 and engaged in banking and mercantile
pursuits; member of the State senate in 1894 and 1895; elected as a Democrat to
the Fifty-fifth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3,
1909); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1908 to the Sixty-first
Congress; engaged in his former business activities until his death in
Montezuma, Ga., on December 10, 1920; interment in Felton Cemetery.